Woman arrested for choking wrong man over alleged butt grab
An upstate woman choked a nightclub bouncer unconscious because she thought he grabbed her butt — only to learn one of her own friends was the real groper, according to a new report.
Plattsburgh resident Kierah Lagrave, 22, was at Five1Eight nightclub, where she works, on Oct. 20 when someone hit her from behind, according to the Press-Republican newspaper.
The 125-pound woman then walked up behind the club’s bouncer and strangled him until he fell to the floor unconscious, police told the paper.
When cops questioned Lagrave about the incident, she acknowledged choking the guard but said it was because he grabbed her.
However, police say security footage revealed the bouncer was innocent.
“The surveillance video clearly shows that Lagrave’s friend slapped her on the buttocks [beforehand],” Plattsburgh City Police Chief Levi Ritter told the paper.
Lagrave was arrested Thursday and his with the felony charge of second-degree strangulation. She was released on her own recognizance, the Press-Republican reports.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/woman-arrested-for-choking-wrong-man-over-alleged-butt-grab/
Son, 21, Confesses To Fatally Stabbing Parents In Bed
An Illinois college professor and her husband were last seen Thursday and were reported missing Sunday night by a relative. The next day, their son told investigators he killed them both.
And after two days of what the Peoria Journal Star calls “feverish” searching, their bodies were found Tuesday. Prosecutors say Jose Ramirez, 21, told his friends he was “sick of his parents,” who both worked at Bradley University in Peoria.
The bodies of Susan Brill de Ramirez, an English professor, and Antonio Ramirez Barron, who worked in the school’s information technology department, were found in Spoon River, the AP reports.
Both were 63. Ramirez, who was arrested Monday, faces first-degree murder charges.
Ramirez allegedly told authorities he killed his parents Friday; they last reported to work on Thursday.
Prosecutors allege he waited until they were asleep, entered their bedroom and used pepper spray as a distraction, then stabbed his father in the neck and stomach.
When his mother woke up, they allege he stabbed her too. He then allegedly wrapped their bodies in a tarp and a tent, put them in his father’s SUV, and dumped them from a bridge about 40 miles from his parents’ home; he was unfamiliar with that area and couldn’t give police an exact location.
One of his friends is charged with obstruction of justice and concealment of a homicidal death; investigators say they have no evidence he was involved but that they believe he knew Ramirez killed them.
(Her parents were murdered. She’s missing. And a burglar was found with her clothes.)
This article originally appeared on Newser: Son, 21, Confesses to Fatally Stabbing Parents in Bed
Mom goes after ‘fight club’ day care
A Missouri mom claims her 4-year-old son was a victim of a “fight club” held at a St. Louis day care center — and that little has been done over the past two years to hold the teachers accountable.
Nicole Merseal shared shocking footage of brawls that she said involved her young son and claimed that teachers Mickala Guliford and Tena Dailey egged on the fights at Adventure Learning Center. She sued the facility in December 2016.
Guliford admitted to allowing the fighting, but said she merely meant it to be a “stress release exercise.”
Merseal said her 10-year-old son, who was with his older classmates in another room, filmed the incident through a window on his iPad after he saw his brother crying. He then texted his mother the video. Teachers were accused of forcing the younger boy to participate in three fights, Q13 Fox reported.
The newly released footage shows a teacher giving each child “hulk hands” before watching them wrestle one another to the floor. Merseal’s younger son wipes his tears away on the sidelines.
“My son was very afraid,” Merseal told ABC News.
“He didn’t understand why his best friends beat him up. These are children that he’s been around for a couple years. He described them as his best friends. He just doesn’t understand why they punched him in the face … I don’t know any parent that could watch their children go through this and not be upset.”
The fight occurred two years ago, but Merseal doesn’t think the teachers were held accountable enough for their actions. The teachers were fired but neither of them faced charges.
“I want them to be held accountable and I don’t want this to happen to any other child,” Merseal said.
Merseal also is seeking $25,000 in damages from the pre-school.
Inspectors visited the pre-school eight times since the incident and accounted for 26 violations.
One of those occurred in March 2018, when an inspector noticed a caregiver drag a 3-year-old by the arm. The pre-school director reportedly was in the room and did not respond.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/mom-goes-after-fight-club-day-care/
‘THIS IS A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD’: Woman charged after racist note to new neighbors
HOWARD COUNTY, Ind. – An Indiana woman who discovered that her new neighbors had a biracial son toilet-papered the home and put an incredibly racist note on the front door, authorities say.
Deborah Cantwell, 63, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor intimidation and criminal mischief over the incident in Greentown, Time reports.
“THIS IS A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD,” the lengthy note said, telling the family they should have “CONSIDERED THE NEIGHBORS” before bringing the child to the area. “YOUR (N-word) KID IS NOT WELCOME!”
The note even claimed that the stress of having a black neighbor could cause “serious health issues,” the Washington Post reports.
In a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for a lawyer, a fence, and a security system, Amy Pundt says her husband found the vile note when he went to check on the property the day after they closed. She says the episode has “destroyed the innocence” of her 15-year-son and badly affected her other children.
Police say that when they interviewed Cantwell, she said she wrote the letter to “vent” and complained that “the blacks get away with it every time,” the Kokomo Tribune reports.
Police say Cantwell told them she was “just trying to let them know” they weren’t welcome and she wasn’t completely sorry for what she did because she felt like she “released some anger writing that letter.”
WTTV reports that the family has now received more than 70 cards and gift baskets from people who want to welcome them to the neighborhood. (This community wiped out racist graffiti before a family saw it.)
4-month-old found infested with maggots ‘died of diaper rash,’ prosecutor says
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa – A 4-month-old child found dead and covered in maggots “died of diaper rash,” Assistant Attorney General Coleman McAllister told an Iowa jury, according to the the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The child’s parents have been charged with murder after their 4-month-old son, Sterling Daniel Koehn, was found dead last summer, weighing less than 7 pounds and in a diaper that hadn’t been changed in over a week.
Cheyanne Harris, 20, and Zachary Koehn, 28, face charges of first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death, according to WHO-TV.
“He died of diaper rash. That’s right, diaper rash,” McAllister said during his statement in Koehn’s trial Tuesday. Harris will be tried separately.
An ambulance was called to the couple’s Alta Vista apartment on Aug. 30 after Koehn called to report that his son had died, just a few hours after he said Harris fed Sterling.
The baby was found in a powered swing seat in a different bedroom from where the couple and their other child slept.
The criminal complaint says an autopsy by the State Medical Examiner’s Office found the infant measured well below the fifth percentile in size and weight for the child’s age. Maggots were also found in various stages of development on the child’s skin and in his clothing. A forensic entomologist was able to determine the child “had not had a diaper change, bath, or been removed from the seat in over a week.”
McAllister said the feces in Sterling’s diaper had attracted the maggots, and the baby’s irritated skin ultimately ruptured, causing an E. coli infection to develop.
An EMT who responded to the couple’s Hilltop Avenue apartment testified that the entire room was hot and reeked of urine.
“His eyes were open, and it was a blank stare,” Toni Friedrch said. She remembered thinking, “This isn’t right, this is not a baby who I can do CPR on.”
Friedrich said when she moved the boy’s blanket, gnats flew out.
The trial is scheduled to continue Wednesday in Henry County, where it was moved from Chickasaw because of the high level of publicity.
Don Lemon – “The biggest terror threat in this country is white men.” CNN not commenting on Lemon’s remark about white men
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN isn’t commenting about Don Lemon’s statement that white men represent the biggest terrorist threat in the country.
Lemon’s statement, on his show Monday, attracted criticism in conservative circles. He was talking about the negative attention given to a caravan of potential refugees in Central America. Meanwhile, white men are the suspects in recent shootings of two blacks in Kentucky and at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Lemon said that, “we have to stop demonizing people and realize that the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.”
A CNN spokeswoman said Wednesday neither Lemon nor the network would speak more about it.
Kanye says he’s been ‘used’ and is ‘distancing’ himself from politics
Yeezy goes.
The outspoken pro-Trump rapper Kanye West complained on Tuesday that he has been “used” and has decided to leave the political world to focus more on his music and design work.
West, who f
amously held a bizarre meeting with President Trump at the White House, tweeted his vision for a better world while announcing his departure from politics.
“My eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in,” the “Yeezus” rapper wrote.
“I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!”
West, who went on a pro-Trump rant last month while wearing a MAGA hat on “Saturday Night Live,” tried to emphasize his “actual beliefs.”
“I support those who risk their lives to serve and protect us and I support holding people who misuse their power accountable,” he wrote.
“I believe in love and compassion for people seeking asylum and parents who are fighting to protect their children from violence and war.”
West also ripped pundit Candace Owens for putting his name on a project about African-Americans leaving the Democratic party called “Blexit.”
“I never wanted any association with Blexit,” he wrote. “I have nothing to do with it.”
Disturbing Video Shows Gun Pointed at Bullied Missouri Boy’s Head ; 3 in Custody
A 17-old-year-old and two juveniles are in custody after a disturbing video circulating on Facebook of a boy being bullied prompted “numerous” calls to police in Independence, Missouri, according to KTLA sister station WDAF in Kansas City.
The video shows one person pointing a gun at a kneeling, juvenile victim, while another repeatedly orders, “kiss my feet.”
Later, the same person who gave the orders can be seen punching the boy in the face several times.
The victim’s mother told WDAF she noticed her 13-year-old son had bruises when he came home last Saturday, but didn’t begin to get answers until after her younger son showed her the video.
“I was hurt, I was angry, I was crying, I was mad,” she said. “It’s sad that other kids feel it’s OK to treat kids that way.”
According to the mother, the other boys also stole money from her son.
Independence police said Alexander Schader, 17, and the two juvenile suspects were taken into custody Tuesday afternoon. In Missouri, 17-year-olds are legally considered adults.
The department said they had received multiple calls from people about the incident.
An investigation is ongoing.
Suspect in Kroger shooting tried to enter black church before attack
The gunman who fatally shot two people at a Kentucky Kroger supermarket this week may have intended to shoot up a predominately black church instead, according to a new report.
The new development supports the theory that the shooting may have been a racially motivated hate crime, WAVE 3 News reported.
Suspect Gregory Bush was captured on surveillance video trying to enter the First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown 15 minutes before the Kroger shooting, Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers told WAVE 3 News.
Had he arrived only an hour and 15 minutes earlier, he would have found 70 people getting ready to leave the church’s mid-week services, church administrator Billy Williams told the station.
Williams first spotted a man wearing similar clothing to Bush during a routine scan of the church’s security footage — and cops confirmed the attempted intruder was in fact Bush.
The FBI is investigating, though investigators would not speculate on a motive, according to the report.
But the son of a witness to the Kroger shooting told the outlet the suspect walked past his dad and said, “Whites don’t kill whites.”
The Louisville Urban League called for a hate crime investigation in a Facebook post.
“Because of the FB posts of the alleged perpetrator and the comments he made to a man in the parking lot of the grocery store, we thought it necessary to clearly state our desire and support for a hate crime investigation,” the statement said.
“We recognize that the alleged perpetrator may have had a mental inquest warrant filed previously, however his FB posts, his comments, and his visit to First Baptist Jeffersontown lead us to express our concern.”
The First Baptist congregation had been taking safety precautions after Dylann Roof opened fire, killing nine people — including a prominent pastor — at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC.
“We have several members that are armed during our midweek service which is what we passed yesterday,” Williams told the station. “And we have people that are armed on Sunday as well.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/10/26/suspect-in-kroger-shooting-tried-to-enter-black-church-before-attack/
Ice-T arrested after failing to pay George Washington Bridge toll
FORT LEE, N.J. — Police have arrested Ice-T after he failed to pay a toll at the George Washington Bridge.
Authorities say the actor and rapper was ticketed for theft of services Wednesday when he drove through an E-ZPass lane leading to the span connecting New Jersey and New York. The 60-year-old, whose real name is Tracy Marrow, was driving a new McLaren sports car and was also ticketed for not having license plates and registration.
Ice-T reportedly forgot his electronic toll transponder and has them for his other vehicles.
The rapper tweeted “Cops went a little Extra. Coulda just wrote a ticket. In and out…Moovin.”
He later tweeted a photo of himself filming scenes in Manhattan for “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” in which he plays Sgt. Odafin Tutuola.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/10/25/ice-t-arrested-after-failing-to-pay-george-washington-bridge-toll/